penis sat day every year in china, an estimated $80000.00 children are abducted by one of their parents. 101 east follows some mothers desperately trying to re unite with their children. oh, now just sierra. ah, well, just whenever you oh, a dozens of prisoners of war release in exchange between russia and ukraine.

ah, no them nora. kyle, this is out. is there a lot from doha also coming up? a weather balloon or spy craft china was calling for com after it says an airship accidentally entered u. s. as space is ready, forces raid a refugee camp and occupied westbank entering at least 13 palestinians. and shall anchor marks independent say, with a parade that many are calling too expensive or a country in dire economic situation. to start with the conflict in that ukraine. russia's defense ministry says 63 of its servicemen have been released by keith. and the ukranian government says 116 of its soldiers have also been allowed to return home. according to moscow amongst the russians freed of those who work in

a sensitive category. nighted arab emirates was involved in the unit in the negotiations as care life not as aim best ravi he's in, keep for us and say, what more you hearing about this prisoner exchange? well here the ukrainian government has confirmed that what, what we're hearing is 116 prisoners of war have been released by the russians and are back on ukrainian soil, president's office and the coordination, the humanitarian coordination office that works on these prisoners swamps. calling this cause for celebration, but they do say despite the fact that of including today, $37.00 swaps prisoners swaps have taken place since the beginning of this conflict . there remain thousands of russia of ukrainian soldiers in russian custody. and there remain hundreds of civilians as well who are yet to be

returned back to ukrainian territory so far in terms of the civilians. only about a 100 have come home in these prisoners swaps. and in terms of soldiers about just a little over 1640 prisoners soldiers have returned home to ukraine in turn, in negotiations with russia, but what the ukrainians are saying despite the fact that this is a cause for celebration, there is still a long way to go to bring all of the other ukranian citizens in russian custody home. and in the meantime, they were having a pulse of power outages in ukraine. won't you tell us about that? okay, i think we might have lost contact with zane, same bus rob

a that in ukraine for us. so the u. s. sex your state and state bank can, has condemned china for sending what the pentagon calls a surveillance balloon over american soil. beijing. as urging for calm as the giant craft floats over the united states, china says it's a civilian weather balloon and it was blown off course by accident. china's decision to fly a surveillance balloon over the continental united states is both only separable and irresponsible. that's what this was about because it's a violation of our sovereignty. so violation of international law was suspected surveillance. balloon is around the size of 3 buses. it usually operates as an altitude. busy anywhere from 24000 meters to 37000 meters. that's higher than commercial planes or fighter jets. the balloon is filled with helium. a solar panel is attached to its bottom which has been visible in the recent sightings. it also

carries equipment and hurting cameras. radar and sensors, alexey moravia, as a professor of national security and strategic studies at kirsten university. he says, the balloon may be used to surveil. seems like it may be in the, the reconnaissance flight and the so called material logical balloon has been used to undertake a deep surveillance missions, especially always sensitive areas of the united states which are particular linked to and the u. s. strategic new nuclear detour and capability. we need to remember that a seamless, i mean sions. what carried on by the united states and other countries during the cold war. so using balloons for hail did use espionage or, or a gunnison. some issues isn't. is not something is not something new and beyond the fact that the chinese did not learn them. do you made that a states are for it?

is that there was so call me there or would you go? balloon was coming into the aerospace inadvertently also suggest that there were bria trying to keep this mission and glenda stan as possible. i and china argues that, and perhaps fanny, that it's very difficult to keep such a big visible object, can death dine, and why would it use such old fashion technology to spy look, i mean, it may, it may sound like an old fashioned technology, but that the end of the day, what there are deliveries you have the results and, and certainly compared to for example, satellites, balloons can all were particular areas for much longer. and as a result they can collect data. busy visuals, perhaps even through some rec, oregon's, and been better than, than the satellite. so we should not on the estimates there, they get passages off this low cost of platforms. and again, this is, this is another factor that makes balloons and quite an attractive form of

espionage because the cost of assembling the balloon and run the mission with them . boom is incomparably low to one of a launch in a spy satellite and keep anything in the orbit. and then again, given the fact as your report suggested earlier, the balloon flies. how did your missions between 20 to 30 kilometers. it's not really easy to neutralize the starting because not every country will have a sufficient air in defense capability to shut it down without causing any substantial damage or without the l. busy or with significant like to, to achieve in it where eddie image is, or information that it might have already gathered, has that already been sent to beijing? look, i mean it's, it's difficult to say in what sort of equipment is on more and by. it's reasonable to assume that this balloon is indeed a, has a spine mission down and it would feed information back. for example,

wires set the light that works tried to be june. so we shouldn't really not be assuming that this is really in the 1950s technology. well, balloons were equipped with cameras and then they would just so waste all the films and then you can normally recover films once the balloon will with touch the surface. so i think if, if, if it was collected information and if it was a gathering intelligence, i'm pretty sure this intelligence would have been found back to the source in real time. the happy reports of a 2nd balloon not confirmed bertha over latin america. didn't credible well it's, it's a bit difficult to say it may well be, you know, a series of missions that may well be one of the balloons. indeed, playing the role of mentoring logical bolona. and we're as a decoy to kind of, you know, an authentic aid, the, the, the official a line that b g and has been using. it may well be and not the reconnaissance flights and the

a with it with a mission to do if actively distract and, and, and create some sort of the way the point mission for the, for the primary mission to achieve success. so which we shouldn't be rolling out any possibilities, but i cannot possibly imagine that the chinese, all of a sudden gear interest in, in the wiring weather details, always north and south america. this particular family has come on out from mike hannah and he's in washington. d. c and mike, this balloon is currently drifting across the united states. what we know about where it is now. well, according to the weather patterns, it's heading eastward sir, towards north carolina. it's expected if these wind conditions stay the same, to actually par sober north carolina later on in the evening and go out to see now the pentagon is not specifying exactly where the balloon is. the sightings of the

balloon are coming from civilians who are tracking its course through the sky. so at this particular stage, we are going in effect on hearsay. the pentagon not giving any clear detail as to exactly where the balloon is. but according to those who viewing it, it is moving eastwards, it has be moving eastwards and the weather patterns confirm that it would be moving in that direction. in terms of the prevailing winds, as actually of say, your sexiest 8 and the bank and should currently be on his way to beijing. he's now postponed that visit. how is this incident damaging you as well china relations? it's going to be exceedingly damaging, indeed that to meeting that entity blinking was going to attend was seen as actually crucial in terms of beginning to repair the relations between the u. s. and china, which had been very frayed in recent months. and indeed in recent years, reaching a low last year when that then speaker of the house, nancy pelosi paid

a visit to ty, one which absolutely infuriated the chinese. the u. s. continues to say that it maintains it's one china policy. it says there's been no change in this policy whatsoever. however, this incident certainly serving to undermine relations. we also understand that had been reports of a 2nd balloon waiting for some kind of clarification on that. once again, that is coming from sources who spotted a balloon type object in the skies above costa rica at this particular point. but that is something we are following up on, but certainly us, chinese relations may be reaching a new time low. certainly keep falling developments and it's very interesting story, mike, to moment, thanks very much. now at least 13 palestinians have been injured in the latest raid in the occupied westbank. israeli forces talk to the aqua java refugee camp. the nearby city of jericho has been

closed off since last week, after a shooting and the legal israeli settlement at least 18 palestinians have been arrested since the operations stafford. now hello, re up door, which they went in and didn't have a specific house in mind. they targeted the whole camp. they started from the entrance of the camp and they continued their ill doing inside. then they let us go back off and murmur and it's in this miss houses were targeted as if the residents were criminals, while they were asleep in their houses, civilians who have nothing to do with the incident. 3 or i mean madison is living in the border areas of the garza strep surveyor crease increasingly vulnerable to his railey attacks. una l said has been to meet several families whose homes have been damaged in israeli strikes. marry him and 289 members of her family used to live here before israel marseilles turned their home to

rubble during fighting with a sly mc g hide group. in august 2022, they lost every thing among sada casa, because we're on the border all the shells of missiles intercepted by the eye and don't fall on us. so when the israeli strikes began, we quickly rushed out to our home, along with our neighbors. the next day we sent my son back to fetch some belongings for the children, but he found our home completely destroyed. and he was in the 1st time in 2014, as we des home was partially damaged in an israeli airstrike, and repaired by the un relief and works agency per pallet psy refugees these days, marianne, her children and grandchildren live together in a rented apartment, which is all they can afford. most buildings here have been rebuilt since they have been damaged in previous conflicts. and those living in this neighborhood, sir,

for their lives. because they're forced to flee their home every time. violet escalates. entire neighborhoods and causes north in in eastern borders are constantly under attack. sally say they're hit by shelves from israeli tanks and bullets from machine guns. sometimes farmers land is bull dozed as shepherds take cover from gun flyer. not far from what used to be millions home yard bade and his family have returned to theirs. it was rebuilt recently after being destroyed for a 2nd time in israel's 2021 war on god saw. yeah, his son holly was injured. he says they never feel say, what has been the 1st of november the go. i didn't know. once we hear that any tension is taking place even before the 1st bullet is fired. we peck and leave our home because he is ready to find the tanks without prior notice in an any direction

. they fire randomly at us. only ra helps with the reconstruction of houses for past unions living in border areas, putting it under additional financial strain. there is an enormous burden on owner was to make this need after the conflict in my 21. ah, we appeal to the international community for funding. we have either rebuilt or repaid over $7000.00 houses here in garza to make sure that people have the bare minimum acceptable level of shelter or housing. because of the constant wars in rounds of escalation, most palestinians in gulf said did not have said, but those who live near the borders are the most vulnerable. because they have to where else to go. gina, c, l, g zebra, ga staff for la had hair announcer, sarah pope frances,

is about to meet these people displaced by rule in south su dawn on the 2nd day of his historic visit. plus, i'm gabriel's on to boston, massachusetts. we're an arctic blast of cold air is rolling through the northeast of america, causing record low temperatures. that story coming up. ah . is of course rainy season in southeast asia. boiler always aries where it's wetter than elsewhere was aries, though not obvious. and satellite picture is appearing in peninsula malaysia throughout the day. i think the shouts get more and more frequent and heavier, and you may well find some flash flooding down here. otherwise, sensory smarter looks wet, but java, unless you're just to south coast, is a dryer picture that has rain also falling in charter bit heavy that it should do

this time the year with temperatures south the yank sea depressed because of that north, the yanks, he probably higher than they should be, as the sun is out, and the wind is no longer cold. indeed, there isn't any real cold anywhere. this of little bit of snow up because of the warm water just off the coast of alcala. so they'll be some may be in support itself. little really changes during monday. the main rain goes off shore has to was the south of japan rain, not snow. okay. have to south asia law. she speaking still quiet evenings for lanka . the rain, not particularly heavy in the loss, the northern plane of india air quality is poor. the same is true in northern parts of pakistan. but when you see rain, stokum, that means showers so for low horror, at least on monday the occult he should improve. and once again the snow up in the mountains and up in kashmir, ah,

sometimes the man tough question. what exactly are you asking for you? on the ground rigorous debate, we challenge conventional wisdom. racism is some deeply entrenched in the country that is identified with america. so when you challenge racism, it looks as if you're challenging on merit and demand the true, there's no serious discussion about this because it goes to the very root of who we are with me, mark lamb on hill. what out there? lou. ah, again you're watching al jazeera, his reminder of our top stories. this, our russian defense ministry says 63 of its service men have been released by

ukraine. keith says 116 ukrainians have been allowed to return home under the deal, which is mediated by the united arab emirates. your section of state antony blinking has condemned china for sending what the pentagon calls a surveillance balloon over american soil paging as urgent. calm as the giant balloon float over the united states. at least 13 palestinians had been injured in a raid on the act up to about refugee camp in the occupied westbank. israeli forces arrested several people in connection with the shooting as an illegal israeli settlements. an arctic blast has hit parts of the united states and canada with fierce winds, pushing temperatures down into negative double digits. authorities in new york and new england issued warnings on friday as the wind chill reach, minus 75 degrees celsius. at the summit of mount washington schools have closed in some areas for fear of hypothermia and frost bite covers under reports from boston

. it's the coldest morning in this city since 1957. and let me tell you, boston is used to cold winters. that's nothing new to them, but this is certainly not normal. given that this we haven't seen these kind of temperatures here for so long right now in boston, it's negative 23 degrees celsius, but with the windshield factor, it's negative. 33 i celsius here gives you an idea of how cold these temperatures are. and it's not only here, but it see entire new england region of the northeast were about 14000000 people live in some parts of a new england in the neighboring states. we've seen temperatures get down to as low as negative 50, a celsius. but what surreal complicating factor here is the wind. we've gotten wind

gusts that have gone up to about 40 to 50 kilometers per hour. and that's really causing a lot of these dangerous temperatures. this arctic blast has just come through here friday and is now a, it's getting the worst of it right now and mount washington in neighboring new hampshire. it saw a negative $75.00 degrees celsius. let me say that again, negative 75 degrees celsius and mount washington observatory and neighboring new hampshire. that's the coldest temperatures ever recorded anywhere in the united states. denmark leads the way as the least corrupt country and an annual report released by transparency international bosses found corruption in latin america as getting wes townhome and has the story the transparency, international corruption perceptions index came out this week and its outlook for latin america is blake no country is significant,

improved at school since 2007. see, the organisation says an oval failure by leaders to act against corruption and strength and public institutions has left the door open for criminal networks to bully and co up to politicians. nicaragua, cuba was marla, they will sank to new lows in guatemala case of the briefly showing the way forward with the united nations backed anti corruption commission that was dissolved in 2019 haiti's in trouble to with no electric government officials. and it's kept to largely overrun by gangs but the absolute bottom of the pile, according to transparency international, is venezuela. i asked the organizations direct to their mercedes to freighters. why? when gavin is in contrast to the rest of the countries, there is no space in which venezuelans can go to ask for justice or their rights.

they call a patient of the institutions historic told by the group in power and assistance for justice under their job. on the contrary, they are guarantors of impunity. so most extreme case perhaps, but it's common to hear in latin america that corruption is a cancer near impossible to root out in latin america. expectations are so low that people in some countries actually have a saying, robert, but oh, i see regarding politicians and it means well, he stills, but at least he does something. but if that changed, if electorates started expect thing, even demanding that they politicians did things for the without ceilings, might things improve in this region? perhaps uruguay also in the region shows that they could it's rich ink of light for latin america. it has the same transparency score in the index as canada, when you're away is one of our wayne tupper performance in several years. and it is not a coincidence that the countries and strong democracy in some are

a united society an institution's work. well, what does that mean? it means that checks and balances operate. well, it means that they have a judiciary danny's a strong and in the band. and there's a reward for that. you require has the highest per capita income and lowest rate in a quality in latin america. that alone seems we're fighting for. if of governments here are interested. john homan al jazeera mexico city. the head of the roman catholic church has on a historic visit to south to dawn alongside believes that the anglican church and the church of scotland is alive. pictures from juba, where hope frances has just arrived to meet people displaced by the civil war home in tulsa as more from the capital, juba jacob, now remembers, coming to seek refuge in this camp for the internally displaced people in cuba.

it's next to the united nations base, so he feel safe here. he was a schoolboy back in 2013. soon after war broke out. he's not 25 years old with children of his own. he hasn't been able to go back home because of violence in pots of thought. sit on her to us as i do, please. yeah. like in a lot of things, especially food wasted, was out for 5 months or the distribution to start last yesterday. today's work and there's also bad news about it that the put is going to last only for 6 months . then of the 6 months there will be no food. according to the united nations, there are more than 2000000 internally displaced people in south sedan. and another 2300000 have played the country as refugees. famine was briefly declared in some regions in 2017. more than 2 thirds of the population. now news, humanitarian aid, because of conflict and natural disasters. the 2018 piece deal stopped the worst of

the fighting, but parts of the agreement, including the deployment of a re, unified, national army have not been implemented. and that's why some people say they don't feel safe. returning home be the head of the catholic church. pope frances, along with leaders of the anglican and scottish presbyterian churches, have voiced concerns about the government slow progress in implementing the 2018 piece deal. they have been delays and holding elections and reports of violence. in some areas. civil society groups say a lack of political will and personal differences between politicians insulted on is the problem. so i'm kinda able to say, and math is an after operational programs and we kind of use operational differences to subject a country to suffer in the way we're suffering mouth discovery. uh we'll come to deliver but we can give a discount from violence to piece. so the leaders need to forget their personal problems. the church, a lot of influence insulted on which is a predominantly christian country. many here hope this historic visit puts pressure

on politicians to do better and work towards peace and reconciliation, harder matessa out is her java. we will, in pakistan, have been protesting in the northern city of per shower, according on authorities to take action to prevent attacks by armed groups all than a 100 people were killed in the city when a suicide bomber targeted a mosque. on monday, i sat baker's following developments from per shower. the police say the investigation is still ongoing. this is going to cctv an examining dna as well as trying to locate phone calls, but they have returning guys operations and understanding to encounter this morning . where would you say to commanders of the book's done italian bond were killed, very arrested. several people, a multiple confiscated cache, a weapons, munitions, communications equipment, as well as explosives. and this is what the chief of the police in that district had to say is the bus on the yankee, the targets of this terror group, which we apprehended and swap the district, what policeman,

case security installations and some high profile people in this region. we are determined to fight these elements just started, but now they say they are determined. this would be very personal for the police. have been in it. 100 people kill innocent. what was supposed to be a secure company, many of them, the majority of the police officer for the country does face the challenge, is economically, this is a topic 5 pop up on and it's history. and the police here are probably got for resources in many cases. the militants have better equipment in terms of the images with the red rhythm better than the police. i say this isn't michael. good morning. go how they all decided to take you on with the plan to like as capsule, a protesting against the cost of a parade. marking independence day. $550000.00 of public funds have been used for the military event in columbia. shank was in the middle of the west economic crisis

in its history. my food fuel and medicine shortages. mel fernandez has more from columbia. the irony of a country celebrating the 75th anniversary of its independence. but very much on the siege. like you can see the people behind me essentially the ordinary. she luncheons locked out. we've had a number of senior police officers selling people. they can't go clearing them are now this is one of the sort of entrance points to the parade location. obviously, a number of police, a special task force personnel, as well as the military in other areas. now there are obviously water cannons at the ready or with the complimentary water bosses. and these are in the event that the protest ers, that have made their voices heard and their displeasure heard about what the government is doing. in case they decide to descend, the president running vicar missing her, says that the celebration is necessary to assure that real anchor is able to

celebrate independence. but he himself has admitted that the countries bankrupt, trying desperately to secure an a bailout package from the international monetary fund. and the after parade essentially is what lots of ordinary people who had tried to go to watch the proceedings ah, confined to seeing because lot of them found that they were locked out. and this is some of the reasons that people in this country at a time of its worst economic crisis, are taking issue with the military parade. they're questioning as to whether this kind of expense is needed. a number of these people, just a few who remain here who haven't been sent off, or that is the question that they have paused. they tell us that, i mean independence is a celebration of freedom and the reaction that they have had is far from it. iran has released an award winning film director who was de.